12 Nov 15
Originally posted by lemondropA: Toe. I can still work and engage in plenty of pastimes even if I can't walk well. A complete set of typing fingers that are ship shape and Bristol fashion is very important.
Q. what would you rather break....a finger or toe?
Q: Does it make some kind of gut feeling sense that pi is a number without apparent end?
12 Nov 15
Originally posted by FMFA. it takes a mathematical proof
A: Toe. I can still work and engage in plenty of pastimes even if I can't walk well. A complete set of typing fingers that are ship shape and Bristol fashion is very important.
Q: Does it make some kind of gut feeling sense that pi is a number without apparent end?
Q does Australia have any per capita?
12 Nov 15
Originally posted by radioactive69A: I think that factoid was put out there during the last Olympics and it sounds convincing ~ added to which you have the nation's achievements in stuff like cricket, rugby (both codes), motor racing and others besides.
Q. Is Australia the best sporting nation in the world per capita?
Q: If it were not going to happen by sheer force of globalization, i.e. instead of American culture becoming the template for changing and assimilating cultures around the world, what country's culture would you promote as a worthy alternative as a template?
12 Nov 15
Originally posted by FMFA. Australia's
A: I think that factoid was put out there during the last Olympics and it sounds convincing ~ added to which you have the nation's achievements in stuff like cricket, rugby (both codes), motor racing and others besides.
Q: If it were not going to happen by sheer force of globalization, i.e. instead of American culture becoming the template for changing and as ...[text shortened]... round the world, what country's culture would you promote as a worthy alternative as a template?
Q. Is England a country on the decline economically?
12 Nov 15
Originally posted by radioactive69A: As a manufacturing country it needlessly strangled itself for obtuse ideological and class warfare reasons in the 1970s and 80s, and now it has a dwindling number of people working as paper pushers, and a burgeoning number of people sweeping the paper pushers' offices and cleaning their toilets, for - in real terms - less and less pay or even on zero hour contracts.
Q. Is England a country on the decline economically?
Q: We talk about the "joys of Spring"... but how would the "joys of Autumn" [for instance] be different if we were to talk about them too?
12 Nov 15
Originally posted by radioactive69A afraid not. using Olympic games Gold Medals as indicator, at the last Summer games (2012) Australia came a lowly 18th per capita, behind GB, NZ and Jamaica, amongst 14 others. Even in your own Summer games of 2000, you only came 5th.
A. I'm not fussy. I'll break both for you 😵
Q. Is Australia the best sporting nation in the world per capita?
As we have just spanked you at cricket, NZ in Rugby Union, Lewis Hamilton in Motor Racing, it leaves just Rugby League which you are, admittedly, supreme at, but only 3 countries (you, us, NZ) really play it!!
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12 Nov 15
Originally posted by FMFA: In spring there is the joy of seeing new leaves budding on trees. In autumn there is the "joy" of having to rake those bloody joys of spring (something I'll have to do for the third and hopefully last time today or tomorrow depending if the winds actually do get to 100kph).
A: As a manufacturing country it needlessly strangled itself for obtuse ideological and class warfare reasons in the 1970s and 80s, and now it has a dwindling number of people working as paper pushers, and a burgeoning number of people sweeping the paper pushers' offices and cleaning their toilets, for - in real terms - less and less pay or even on zero hour con ...[text shortened]... ut how would the "joys of Autumn" [for instance] be different if we were to talk about them too?
Q: Should I save myself all this grief (raking the leaves) by cutting down all the deciduous trees on my property?
17 Nov 15
Originally posted by Great Big SteesA. Only the ones you determine are diseased.
A: In spring there is the joy of seeing new leaves budding on trees. In autumn there is the "joy" of having to rake those bloody joys of spring (something I'll have to do for the third and hopefully last time today or tomorrow depending if the winds actually do get to 100kph).
Q: Should I save myself all this grief (raking the leaves) by cutting down all the deciduous trees on my property?
Q. What are the primary components of long term friendships?
17 Nov 15
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyA: See here http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/bffs
A. Only the ones you determine are diseased.
Q. What are the primary components of long term friendships?
Q: What will be the implications for cultures around the world will the increasing number of international and cross-cultural marriages ~ facilitated by the internet and other upshots of globalization?
17 Nov 15
Originally posted by SuzianneA: Yes, it is all I did. But it may well answer the questioner's query.
My estimation of you almost went up a few notches until I double checked a hunch.
I just Googled "long term friendships" and this was first in the list of links.
This indicates that this is all you did.
Q: Do you think cats having kittens for a second time have learnt anything from doing it all the first time?